[ddots-l] Re: getting shocked by equipment in home studio, any suggestions?

  • From: "Cameron" <cameron@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 19:27:49 -0400

Hi.  No, I'm not.  

 

 

 

 

From: ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Omar Binno
Sent: Friday, September 18, 2009 8:25 PM
To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [ddots-l] Re: getting shocked by equipment in home studio, any
suggestions?

 

are you using one of those rubber floor mats and a rolling chair? i was
having the same problem one time, and as soon as i removed the rubber matt
everything was fine.

----- Original Message ----- 

From: Cameron <mailto:cameron@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>  

To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 

Sent: Friday, September 18, 2009 7:13 PM

Subject: [ddots-l] getting shocked by equipment in home studio, any
suggestions?

 

Hi all.  I have a problem, hopefully someone can give me some suggestions or
shed some light on why this is happening.

 

The apartment complex I'm living in now was built in the early sixties I
believe.  The outlets are not very good, worn out, you can't plug anything
into the top of any of them because it just falls out.  You can only plug
things into the bottom plug.

 

Anyways, when I was using my FW1884, I didn't notice any issues with
anything except for noise because I am on a dirty circuit/loop being shared
by all sorts of appliances and god knows what else.  

 

My current setup is now my ADK rack mount machine, Motu896 MKIII firewire
interface, and BCF2000 control surface, which is all plugged into a power
conditioner.

 

I started doing some tracking with my new gear for a new job this week and
whenever I used a mic that required phantom power, as soon as the mic was
plugged into the interface, I would get shocked if I touched anything metal
that was plugged into the conditioner, including the mic itself computer,
control surface, interface, etc, .  It's not enough to cause damage, but it
is unplesent and is enough of a jolt to make you quickly stop touching
whatever control you're touching.

 

This happens even when the phantom power is switched off for every channel
on the interface.  I found out this afternoon that it also happens with
dynamic mics too.

 

As soon as all mics are unplugged, everything is fine.

 

My power conditioner doesn't appear to have a ground lift switch.  Is this
the issue?  Is there anything I can do to remedy this?  I've got 5 months of
writing and recording ahead and I really don't want to be freaking shocked
every time I touch my gear!

 

I'm going to make this issue known to the apartment manager on Monday but I
really doubt they will understand what I'm talking about, or give a damn for
that matter.

 

Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated!

 

Thanks,

 

Cameron.

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